Central Fund Accountant - BL, CT, MU, CL

Cape Town (South Africa) (24 Jul 2026) JD1547

The Fund Accountant position is responsible for the preparation and production of Net Asset Values (NAVs), fund accounting records, and investor capital accounts for a portfolio of investment funds administered by the organization.

The role sits within the organization’s centralized fund accounting function, which performs the core accounting and reporting activities for multiple funds and jurisdictions.

The position involves processing investment transactions, maintaining fund accounting books and records, preparing periodic NAV calculations, and supporting financial reporting for investment funds.

As the NAV Checker, the position is responsible for reviewing and validating NAV calculations prepared by Fund Accountants, ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and integrity of fund accounting records before NAVs are released for supervisory approval.

The Fund Accounting Team Lead is responsible for managing NAV production for a portfolio of funds, overseeing the work of Fund Accountants and NAV Checkers, ensuring accurate and timely NAV delivery, and acting as the primary escalation and coordination point for operational issues.

• Prepare periodic Net Asset Value (NAV) calculations for assigned funds.
• Maintain fund accounting records including general ledger, trial balances, investment registers
• Process accounting entries relating to investment purchases and disposals, realized and unrealized gains/losses, income accruals, expense allocations
• Calculate management fees and performance fees in accordance with fund documentation.
• Service fund clients to ensure timely and excellent delivery of services as agreed with each fund.
• Responsible for accurate and timely issuance of funds’ NAVs in line with prospectus, laws and regulations.
• Transaction monitoring and initiating investor payments and internal transfers for funds.

• Record and reconcile investment transactions including equities, debt instruments, private equity investments, structured products, derivatives where applicable
• Maintain investment schedules and valuation records.
• Reconcile investment positions with custodians, brokers, and counter parties.

• Maintain investor capital accounts for each fund.
• Process subscriptions, redemptions, capital calls, distributions.
• Calculate investor allocations of income, gains, and expenses.
• Prepare investor capital account statements.
• Constant monitoring of shareholder services to ensure up to date processing of subscription and redemptions, with timely completion of KYC/AML checks.

• Perform periodic bank and cash reconciliations.
• Monitor fund cash balances and reconcile with fund accounting records.
• Investigate and resolve reconciliation differences.

• Record investment valuations in accordance with valuation policies.
• Maintain valuation documentation and supporting calculations.
• Process valuation adjustments for NAV purposes.
• Assist in the preparation of financial statements, investor reports, capital account summaries.
• Preparation of financial statements, investor reports, capital account summaries, preparation of PBC items and liaison with Auditors.
• Support audit processes by preparing accounting schedules and responding to audit requests.

• Work closely with investor services teams, custody and treasury teams, legal and compliance teams, investment managers.
• Ensure accurate processing of fund transactions and accounting records.
• Ultimately responsible for all aspects of fund accounting which include creation of security masters, trade processing, pricing, valuation, recording corporate actions, calculation of interest/dividend accruals, cash/position /dividend/coupon reconciliations, periodic accruals, calculation of management/performance fees, equalization etc.
• Ensure that a Fund Accountant may not review or approve NAV calculations that they have prepared themselves for the same reporting period.

• Accurately record chargeable time and value of service using Maconomy, ensure effective monitoring of transactions, handle pricing, invoicing and collection of outstanding fees for the portfolio of clients.
• Monitor own productivity and chargeability on weekly basis and review productivity and performance against targets. to ensure that individual financial targets and client communication KPIs are met.
• Follow a disciplined approach to submitting timesheets for client work and meet the weekly and monthly time/chargeability targets

• Undertake the role of director, trustee, nominee, manager, partner, secretary, authorized signatory or any related position in internal entities or client entities of Amicorp Group, where necessary and required by the Management.
• Undertake such other duties, as may from time to time, be required by the Management or/and Group Human Resources.

• Degree in Accounting,…